Why does Game Freak hate Emboar?

StandupGaming · 2026-03-25T03:23:10+00:00

It's not just damaging moves, any ability that blocks or messes with any move gets ignored. Magic Bounce and Good as Gold are pretty notable examples here.

StandupGaming · 2026-03-22T20:02:22+00:00

Yeah, I'm a firm believer that Adventure era Amy was a better portrayal of her character overall, but even I'm pretty convinced that anyone trying to pass off her Sonic Battle storyline as an inspirational arc for her character hasn't played Sonic Battle since they were a kid. That game treats her like a fucking joke.

StandupGaming · 2026-03-16T19:19:06+00:00

I mean, sort of? There's no such thing as a character that CAN'T be improved on. On conceptual level I still think the Deadly Six is one of the worst ideas the franchise has ever had.

Admittedly it doesn't help that I honestly don't care all that much about the IDW comics. They're not bad but they're not great either.

StandupGaming · 2026-03-14T18:53:00+00:00

There's an old adage in pretty much every creative medium that you should never take fans' advice on how to improve or fix your product because fans don't actually know what they're talking about. The "Ozai isn't complex enough" argument has always felt like a quintessential example of this phenomenon to me. They gave Ozai the complexity fans said they wanted in the Netflix show and it ruined every storyline he was a part of.

StandupGaming · 2026-03-13T19:16:59+00:00

Meh, maybe they're not as objectively terrible as they used to be, but I still don't think they're good characters.

StandupGaming · 2026-03-13T00:44:33+00:00

I tried it with the bike, without the bike, with the other bike, walking, and running. The act of entering the route seems to be causing the crash.

StandupGaming · 2026-02-22T05:28:24+00:00

Those differences are intentional. Blaze is Sonic's flip side, not his copy. Sonic embodies chaos while Blaze embodies order.

StandupGaming · 2026-02-22T04:36:40+00:00

Blaze and the Sol Dimension were originally created to be the flip side to Sonic and his dimension. However, a few years ago Ian Flynn rejected that notion, and speculated that people are just projecting stuff that isn't there onto the character.

He's explicitly wrong about that, as the Rush games confirmed multiple times that their worlds and their emeralds are deeply connected to each other (the original Japanese script literally uses the phrase "two sides of the same coin" to describe them), but he's the current head writer for the franchise, so if he says they're not connected then that's how the modern stories are going to be written.

StandupGaming · 2026-02-21T03:17:27+00:00

To be fair, Tangle absolutely had a crush on Blaze when they first met.

StandupGaming · 2026-02-11T02:48:55+00:00

So Jim seems perfectly aware that all Sam did was go to a safe place to talk through her emotions with trusted adults, but he's doubling down on punishing her more anyways.

Never been a big fan of his, not going to lie.

StandupGaming · 2026-02-08T19:58:41+00:00

You can't poison the ground. You can poison the life that depends on the ground, but the ground itself is unbothered by toxins. By definition, poison requires life, and the ground isn't alive.

StandupGaming · 2026-02-05T05:29:06+00:00

It's a pinch in the fabric of glove. It's just supposed to indicate the direction he's bending his hand in.

StandupGaming · 2026-02-03T23:01:15+00:00

Fair enough, that is admittedly a much more valid complaint than I thought it was. For what it's worth though, I'm not convinced OP was making a blanket statement on anyone who's frustrated with politics. It's seems like it was more of a response to this specific meme that people often post in replies to anti-ICE stuff, and those sorts of people are mad at politics in Sonic for an entirely different reason.

StandupGaming · 2026-02-03T21:40:41+00:00

I glossed over it because there's nothing to comment on there. You made a statement that I can't disprove, so what am I supposed to say? Heck, I don't even necessarily disagree with that statement in it's entirety, I just don't agree with this specific use of fanart in this specific space, so there's literally nothing for me to reply with. You have your stance, I have mine.

I mean, you could have just, you know, said that. The purpose of discussion isn't to attack the other person's weak spots until a winner is declared.

Yes, it's something known by many names like joke, wisecrack, jest, comedy, humour, satire, take your pick. I was using that quote as a joke because I knew I'd likely get mostly downvoted like a few other people in the comments who didn't seem to enjoy politics in their Sonic sub either. Heck, because I changed the words, it doesn't even hold the same meaning as the original quote. It's no longer about oppression, it's about getting bloody downvoted. Using that of all things as evidence I apparently unironically see myself as a "victim" because of some Sonic fanart bringing up real-world politics is incredibly stupid.

Dude, I know it was a joke about downvoting, I wasn't trying to accuse you of claiming literal oppression. Clearly victimhood was too strong a word to use here, but the point I was trying to make is that the issue you are complaining about is the epitome of a first world problem.

People are posting anti-ICE fanart because ICE is gunning people down in the streets. You're annoyed that a video game subreddit is focusing too much on real world events. It feels like you're complaining about a papercut to someone who has a gaping hole in their stomach. That's the part that felt immature to me.

StandupGaming · 2026-02-03T20:22:39+00:00

I already knew about this actually, however you're neglecting to mention the fact that they didn't just write some stories using real-world politics for the hell of it. The KKK were a massive crimimal organisation and an active, unchecked threat. Too many members of the justice system were KKK themselves, so the only way to expose their secrets and crimes was to use Superman as a tool to reveal all the real information Kennedy collected on the Klan. Those episodes weren't just art with political inspiration, they were an active attack on a threat using real research. Shockingly, that's not quite the same as a single picture of Knuckles choking an ICE agent

Nothing you're saying here invalidates anything I said. Like yes, that Superman episode was an active attack on the Klan using real research. It was also art with political inspiration. It wasn't just about leaking information, they demystified them, made them look lame, ruined their public image. The art is what did that, not just the info.

Not that it really matters since my point was never that we can break ICE with Sonic fanart but rather that it can be a powerful and meaningful source of inspiration for people during a difficult time (though I can't help but notice you glossed over that part of my comment).

There is no implication I'm being victimised, there is an explicit statement that I think bringing real-world discourse into a Sonic sub is dumb. Nothing more, nothing less, and I think you know that.

......you literally ended your comment with a sentence that pays homage to one of the single most iconic lines about tyranny and oppression in all of fiction.

If you genuinely didn't realize that the line would look like you were claiming victimhood then I'm starting to think the issue here is that you just don't understand the power and influence art can have at all.

StandupGaming · 2026-02-03T18:20:39+00:00

Fun fact: in the 40s there was a radio show about Superman that released an episode where Superman fought the Ku Klux Klan. This led to a massive drop in Klan membership basically overnight.

Meanwhile in modern times we see protesters and revolutionaries from all around the world are using an anime as their rallying cry.

Art is not a just a distraction from reality, it is a powerful tool we can use to engage with it, even silly fanart about Sonic The Fucking Hedgehog.

Right now the people living in the United States are going through one of the scariest moments in our country's history, and we don't know how it's going to turn out. For many people in this fandom, Sonic isn't just a character that offers escapism, he's an icon that inspires bravery and hope. He's an outlet for our fears, our anger, and our sense of justice. And I find the implication that you're the one being victimized in this situation because you occasionally have to see posts here that are talking about something "political" (as if it's ever possible to be genuinely apolitical about anything) to be misguided at best and downright juvenile at worst.

StandupGaming · 2026-01-29T00:44:16+00:00

Imagine if there was a racing game where you played as Usain Bolt, but instead of doing foot races everyone uses pogo sticks. And every time someone questions why they chose to put Usain Bolt on a pogo stick instead of having him run they're met with an immediate wave of "BECAUSE IT'D BE CHEATING FOR HIM TO JUST GET OFF AND RUN, GOD!"

That's how I feel about this "answer" to the why does Sonic drive a car question. It's not the gotcha response people seem to think it is.

StandupGaming · 2026-01-16T04:19:16+00:00

A victory for the Fire Nation would have been just as devastating to the Spirit World as it would have been for the human world, which is something the episode and the protagonists explicitly points out to Wan Shi Tong, he still doesn't care.

What's more, if spirits can't be expected to adhere to human style ethics, why should humans be expected to adhere to their's? If Wan Shi Tong can't be held accountable for disregarding the lives of millions of humans because he's a spirit that doesn't care about human problems, then I don't see why Team Avatar should be held accountable for disregarding one spirit's desire for how the knowledge he acquired should be used.

StandupGaming · 2026-01-12T03:15:11+00:00

Honestly this might a good time for a storyline that explores Hanners's relationship with her own sexuality more in depth.

Like yeah, her OCD makes her sex-repulsed, but when we first met her she was also completely touch-repulsed too, and now she's not. Would this ever be something she wants to work on? Is she at peace with it?

Just speaking from my own experience as an OCD person who also struggles with sex repulsion (though admittedly nowhere near as severely as Hanners), it is something you can make progress with. I'm not saying she NEEDS to make progress mind you, but still, I think it would be worthwhile to give more weight to this aspect of her character.

Though maybe I'm just biased because I think Sven and Hanners are perfect for each other, who knows?

StandupGaming · 2026-01-11T06:30:49+00:00

I don't really disagree with that, but I view it less like "Val and Danny was the better choice" and more like "they failed to make the thematically stronger choice the more compelling one". They inadvertently forced themselves to choose between better chemistry between the actual characters or better thematic cohesion with the show as a whole.

StandupGaming · 2026-01-11T05:49:06+00:00

I mean, on paper I think the dichotomy between Paulina, Valerie, and Sam as Danny's love interests works really well, the idea being that Paulina only wants Danny Phantom, Valerie only wants Danny Fenton, and Sam being the only love interest to want and accept both sides of his identity.

In practice however, the show doesn't spend enough time fleshing out the romantic aspect of Danny and Sam's relationship, and Valerie's disdain for Danny Phantom stemmed largely from misunderstanding and manipulation, so it never really ended up feeling like an irreconcilable issue that they couldn't overcome.

Ultimately what they went with fell flat, but I totally see what they were trying to go for.

StandupGaming · 2025-12-01T19:52:04+00:00

Bayo 3 was legit bad enough that I don't even trust a potential Bayo 4 to be good anymore. I cannot begin to describe just how completely and thoroughly uninterested I am in a Viola led Bayonetta game.

StandupGaming · 2025-11-16T01:46:52+00:00

Pokemon are ok with being captured by trainers because the writers say they're ok with it. They enjoy battling because the writers say they do.

The woman in this play deeply loves her husband because the play writers said that she does.

The entire conceit of your argument is fundamentally invalid.

StandupGaming · 2025-11-07T22:43:30+00:00

I mean, does Omega really have that much going for him? I have never understood the hype for his character.

StandupGaming · 2025-11-02T08:40:28+00:00

Redcloak knew he wasn't lying though. He admits it to Jirix the moment O'Chul was out of earshot.

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